The medium of drawing is currently enjoying a resurgence both in Germany and abroad. There are an enormous variety of approaches, and yet the work of the many different artists has something in common: an emphasis on process.

What do young people in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century look like, and how do they present themselves? Are the processes at work in today’s society obliterating regional idiosyncrasies? Berlin photographer Edgar Zippel set out to find answers to these questions, and the results of his quest will be displayed in an exhibition at the Museum of European Cultures, part of the National Museums in Berlin.

The actor, speaker and author Hanns Zischler has for years enjoyed prowling around outdoors with a Rigby pinhole camera in tow. The use of this historical technique, which requires long exposure times, allows him to lend unique expression to the constant motion found in nature.

In The Diagonal Mirror, Martin Zeller (*1961) documents the rapid changes that have taken place in Hong Kong during the past three years in terms of urban planning, the structure of space and social developments.

Michael Zibold took the photographs in the book "Passagen" during the past 20 years in the world’s major harbor cities: Shanghai, St.Petersburg, New York, Naples and Rio de Janeiro, to name just a few of a total of 19 different settings.

These photographs by Rosemarie Zens, a crossover-artist who works in both photography and literature, are testimonies to the legendary Route 66 and our collective memories of the 1960s way of life commonly associated with it.

Decades after World War II, Rosemarie Zens returns for the first time to the town in today’s Poland where she was born. In 1945, when she was just a young child, her mother had been forced to flee with her in a wave of refugees.